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A Palestinian family flees Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Gaza: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah

Roughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in the area on 6 May, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA said on Saturday in a renewed appeal for greater protection of civilians in Gaza, safe humanitarian access and, ultimately, a ceasefire.

Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian Affairs Officer (centre), talks with a Palestinian woman in Rafah, Gaza, in March 2024.

‘Brand new words’ needed to describe Gaza devastation, UN humanitarian says

A floating dock for the delivery of humanitarian supplies was built off the coast of Gaza.

Gaza: Aid delivery via floating dock welcomed, but land routes ‘more important’

Due to social prejudices, gay couples are still forced to hide their identity.

India’s LGBTQIA+ community notches legal wins but still faces societal hurdles to acceptance, equal rights

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UN rights office urges Sri Lanka to reveal fate of the disappeared

UN’s rights chief horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearer

Israel refutes South Africa’s accusations at UN world court

Crimes against nature: UN agency puts environmental legislation under scrutiny

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Yasmina Guerda, UN Humanitarian Affairs Officer, looks out over Rafah, Gaza, in March 2024.

Urgent aid needed in Gaza amidst unimaginable hardship

Destroyed home in Kharkiv, Ukraine (Feb 2024)

Ukraine crisis reaches new terrifying level as civilians face daily drone and ‘glide bomb’ attacks

Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), briefs reporters on his recent visit to Haiti.

Sudan civilians ‘want conflict to end’ says WFP's Deputy Executive Director

Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the country.

Libya: Outgoing UN envoy details challenges to political solution

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Jelaskovic Ibrahim of the then-Yugoslav medical staff of the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) treats a child in El Kuntilla in the Sinai in Egypt in 1959. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: UN’s first peacekeeping force

Peace and Security As the world celebrates the International Day of Living Together in Peace, marked annually on 16 May, we are taking you back to the 1950s, when the UN deployed its first ever peacekeeping force to the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula to help bring an end to the Suez Canal crisis.

An UNHAS helicopter lands on Ile de la Tortue off the north coast of Haiti.

Dealing with ‘unknowns’ flying in high-conflict Haiti

Dominica's geothermal energy pipe, Roseau Valley

Could the answer to 100% renewable energy in Dominica be under the ground?

Daily life continues on the streets of Port-au-Prince, despite the insecurity.

First Person: ‘Our tears are dry, we are exhausted’ – Youth voices in Haiti

Every month, thousands of Sudanese people still migrate to nearby countries like South Sudan and Chad, forgotten and voiceless on an incredibly challenging journey, and nobody knows when it will end.

Rape, murder and hunger: The legacy of Sudan’s year of war

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On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

Six months after the full-scale invasion of Gaza, 30,000 Palestinians are dead, dozens of children have died of hunger and more than half a million Gazans face starvation. As Israel continues to bomb the occupied territory and restrict the entry of lifesaving goods, the UN is scrambling to respond.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

Gaza’s displaced children: ‘A heartbreaking story of loss and grief’

A five-year-old boy sits on his mattress in a shelter courtyard surrounded by several hundred other displaced people.

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The Al Shifa hospital, one of the largest health facilities in Gaza, has been destroyed.

Rights expert condemns death of Palestinian doctor in Israeli custody, urges independent inquiry

Human Rights A renowned Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon’s death in Israeli detention has been labelled “horrifying’ by a UN human rights expert, prompting calls for an independent international investigation.

Children travel in the trunk of a car as they leave Rafah in southern Gaza.

Guterres repeats call to Israel to halt Rafah assault as aid stocks dwindle

Peace and Security UN chief António Guterres reiterated his warning on Thursday against a full-scale assault on Rafah, just as aid teams issued increasingly urgent appeals for safe passage throughout Gaza, to replenish dangerously low stocks of lifesaving supplies.

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